--- title: Commas are not sprinkles either: "The, dog, ran, quickly" is just no… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics description: Commas are not sprinkles either: "The, dog, ran, quickly" is just noise; and in texts people use them loosely ("omg, wait, lol, ok"), which is fine for texting, while school writing follows the rules. Who acts: Commas, dog, people, school writing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commas, dog, people, school writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:4 # text = Commas are not sprinkles either: "The, dog, ran, quickly" is just noise; and in texts people use them loosely ("omg, wait, lol, ok"), which is fine for texting, while school writing follows the rules. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 sprinkles sprinkle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 either either ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:csubj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 loosely loosely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 omg omg INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 lol lol INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 ok ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 texting texting NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 while while SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Commas | sprinkles | | | | either *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **run** *in a quote* | past | the dog | | | | | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | noise | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | infinitive | people | texts *= text* | | texts | | loosely *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | for texting; fine *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **follow** | present | school writing | the rules | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:4`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/3/) - next →: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/)